Table 1 Patient demographics for the cohort.
Discovery set (microarray) | Validation set (qRT-PCR) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CD | NC | P value | CD | NC | P value | |
Number | 3 | 3 | – | 75 | 75 | – |
Age (years) | 36.7 ± 2.1 | 37.7 ± 2.5 | 0.624 | 38.2 ± 5.1 | 39.8 ± 5.6 | 0.597 |
Gender, n (%) | – | – | 1.000 | – | – | |
Male | 2 | 2 | – | 45 | 38 | – |
Female | 1 | 1 | – | 30 | 37 | – |
BMI (kg/m2) | 21.0 ± 1.9 | 21.1 ± 2.0 | 0.762 | 21.6 ± 2.9 | 22.3 ± 2.7 | 0.128 |
Disease location, n (%) | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Colonic | 2 | – | – | 20 | – | – |
Ileocolic | 1 | – | – | 55 | – | – |